Can Culture Series #3 – 2025
$185.00 each (plus shipping)
Advertising has played a complex role in shaping Australia’s cultural identity. From the early days of jingles and billboards to the contemporary era of social media and influencer marketing, ads have both reflected and influenced Australian values, aspirations, and anxieties.
Through the lens of spray cans, a ubiquitous symbol of self-expression, I fuse pop culture and personal narratives to explore this nostalgic relationship between advertising and Australian post-colonial culture.
The surfaces of my ceramic spray cans are screen printed in underglaze with abstracted branding, acting as triggers for personal recollections from the 1970’s to now. They whisper of my childhood summers, Sunday ice creams, bike rides with friends and my first jobs.
By printing fragmented poetic memories, “I invite viewers to unlock their own trove of memories and experiences, recollected through the lens of these everyday brands that have become a part of Australia’s post-colonial psyche”.
Can Culture Series #3 sculptures are an extension of my Can Culture prints from 2023.
Each can is slip cast by hand from Walkers ceramics Earthen Ware slip, hand screen printed with underglaze and finished with Walkers Ceramics Super Gloss glaze.
Can Culture Cans are available from Ferry Artists Gallery, Wiseman’s Ferry, NSW, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Richmond, NSW or you can order directly by clicking on my email address red@redherringarts.com and email me your name, shipping address and the can/cans you want to purchase. Redherring will contact you via email to process your order and payment. Once payment received, your order will be shipped via Australia Post.